Assistant Clinic Director; LCSW; Brooklyn

The Assistant Clinic Director reports to the Clinic Director and is a member of the administrative staff. Provides support to the Clinic Director by providing clinic oversight assistance, supervision of counselors, and ensuring the quality of patient engagement and care.

Fort Greene or Bushwick

• Provides administrative backup for Clinic Director as needed including rotating Saturday shift.
• Expected to provide clinic oversight in the event staff are on leave or vacant.
• Supervision of CASAC Counselors and ensure delivery of behavioral health services, oversees case notes and individual case records.
• Provides clinical supervision to the counselors by holding supervisory meetings at least once weekly with a focus on case analysis, person-centered treatment planning, case management, and issues related to the supervisory process.
• Participates in clinical supervision with the Clinic Director once per week.
• Ensures that vocational rehabilitation (when indicated) and resolution of concurrent medical disorders are integrated within each treatment plan.
• Concurrently monitors the quality of patient treatment and reporting documentation in all systems and initiates prompt corrective actions if required.
• Coordinates the release of patient treatment summaries to requesting agencies.
• Attends staff meetings and serves annually on at least one of the agency’s standing committees (Health & Safety, Continuous Quality Insurance, Compliance, or Continuing Education).
• Participates and assists in the generation, planning, and implementation of research and demonstration proposals and provides feedback on identified corporate priorities.
• Provides staff training to treatment personnel and ensure the implementation of evidence-based practices.
• Ensures staff maintains all patient confidentiality and privacy guidelines.

• Serves as a member or chairperson of the Interdisciplinary Team in the development of the patient's treatment plan.
• Ensures the thorough and timely completion of patient treatment and reporting documentation in all systems including HRA-STARS, OASAS-CDS, agency electronic health records system, and manual records as appropriate.
• Studies medical and behavioral histories and provides guidance on bio-psycho-social assessment to the Counselors.
• Provides initial mental health screenings for all patients prior to admission.
• Provides initial, annual, and crisis mental health evaluations for identified patients.
• Effects improved patient care by selecting the appropriate therapeutic approach and providing individual and group sessions (when necessary), crisis therapy, and marital/family therapy (when indicated), on an ongoing, time-limited, or crisis intervention level.
• Provides a network of referrals for those patients needing out-patient, in-patient, residential, or emergency psychiatric services, ensures patient coordination and follow-up, and monitors progress monthly with external providers.
• Coordinates referrals and follow-ups for those patients who require concurrent chemical dependency services.

• SCREENING:
  The process by which the patient is determined appropriate and eligible for admission to a particular program (LOCADTR). Evaluate the psychological, social, and physiological signs and symptoms of alcohol and other drug abuse. Identify any coexisting conditions (medical, psychiatric, physical, etc.) that indicate the need for additional professional assessment and/or services.
• INTAKE:
  The administrative and initial assessment procedures for admission to a program. Accurately complete the required documents for admission to the program. Obtain appropriately signed consent when soliciting information from, or providing information to, outside sources to protect patient confidentiality and rights.
• ORIENTATION:
  Describing to the patient the following: patient rights general nature and goals of the program; rules governing patient conduct and infractions that can lead to disciplinary action or discharge from the program, the hours during which services are available and treatment costs to be borne by the patient if any;…